Clothes-pounder



Patented Apr. 8, 1890..

(No Model.)

H. YOUMANS. CLUTHBS POUNDER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY YOUMANS, OF CANNON FALLS, MINNESOTA.

CLOTH ES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent NO. 425,360, dated April 8, 1890.

Application iiled November 29, 1389. Serial No. 331,936. (No model.)

.To all whom zit may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY YOUMANS, of Cannon Falls, in the county of Goodhue and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Pounders or Washers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification.

My invention relates to an inlprovelnenti clothes pounders or washers; and it consists in the combination and arrangement of parts. to be more fully described hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in theiclaim.

The object of my invention is to place upon a clothes-pounder a vertically-movable cone which catches the Water or splash caused by the other cones and prevents it from splashing upon the floor, and to extend upwardfthe upper end of one of the rigid cones sufciently far to provide a smooth and hard bearingsurface for the movable cone to slide upon.

The accompanying drawing is a vertical Section of awasher which embodies my invention, the splasher being shown in one position in solid lines and in another in dotted lines.

A represents the handle, and B the center cone, which is considerably shorter than the outer one C. These two cones operate in the usual well-known manner in clothes-pounders of this class. Placed upon 'the handle and dropping down over and around the two cones B C is a third cone D, which, instead of kbeing rigidly secured to the handle like the other from its own movement.

two cones, is made automatically and vertically movable, so that as the pounder is moved up and down this outer cone D catches the Water which would be splashed out upon the door by the other two cones. The cone C is provided with the elongated end G, which eX- tends up and around the handle A, as shown, and which forms a sm ooth bearing-surface for the moving cone D, which is placed around it. As the handle is forced downward the two cones B C in striking the water cause a considerable splash and the outer cone D rises upon the handle just sufficiently to catch this splash without making anyl additional splash The consequence is the machine can be operated without causing much if any splash.

Having thus described my invention, I

The combination,with a clothes-pounder consistin g of a handle, and rigid imperforate cones placed upon the lower end thereof, of a larger imperforate movable cone the lower edge of which ext-ends down and surrounds the lower end of the rigid cone, and so loosely placed upon the handle that it rises and falls from the momentum of the pounder, whereby .it is moved downward and catches the splash of the rigid cones, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY YGUMANS. Titnessesz L. A. RosING, F. C. CARLSON. 

